I'm about a year and a half out of college, and I've recently moved to Minneapolis from Kansas City. I'm here to start my dream job as a writer at a magazine I've been reading since I was 10.

I'm the rare breed of nerd that actually enjoys going out and being social. Granted, this doesn't mean I'm going out dancing at douchey clubs nightly, but I love dive bars and anyplace with cheap drinks and some character. I'm looking forward to seeing what Minneapolis has to offer.

I love stupid 80s action movies, Nerf guns, board games, roller coasters, fruit snacks, and virtually anything else I loved when I was 12.

Changing everything I know about it. I've lived my entire life around Kansas City, and all my family and friends are there. As hard as it is to leave it all behind, I couldn't be more thrilled to move up to Minneapolis and start my career.

Any kind of useless, trivial, or obscure pop culture knowledge. Whenever I watch a movie on DVD, I have an OCD habit of constantly checking IMDB to find the names and filmography of almost every minor character. So if you're in an emergency and need to know the movies Peter Stormare has been in, who the bad guy from Die Hard 2 was, or who the homeless guy in Dirty Work was, I can probably help you out.

That my maturity level and interests are similar to that of a kid, but a lot of the stuff I say is basically stuff I picked up from my grandpa. I've unintentionally adopted his laugh, as well as the sayings "What do we got going on here?", "what in the Sam Hell", describing people as being "up to something" or calling them "jokers". I've yet to take on his trademark of yelling "ACT LIKE YOU'RE SOMEBODY" at people when taking pictures, but I fear that day may be coming soon.

Movies:

The Departed, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Big Trouble in Little China, Commando, The Shining, All of the Rockys except V, Seven, All of the Die Hards, The Story of Ricky, Terminator 2, The Big Lebowski, American Psycho, Gimme Shelter, Predator, Army of Darkness, Jurassic Park, Casino Royale, Shaun of the Dead, Chuck Berry: Hail Hail Rock 'n' Roll, A Clockwork Orange, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Star Wars, First Blood, First Blood pt. II, Rambo, The Rock, Spinal Tap, Jaws, Saving Private Ryan, Indiana Jones, Boogie Nights, The King of Kong, There Will Be Blood

TV Shows:

Arrested Development, South Park, The Colbert Report, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office (both versions, before the American one got shitty), The Simpsons (seasons 1-10), The Daily Show, Oz, Deadwood, Da Ali G Show, Lost, Dateline To Catch A Predator, Intervention, Planet Earth, American Gladiators, Flight of the Conchords, The Soup, Dexter, Californication, Eastbound & Down, Breaking Bad

Music:

Warren Zevon, The Rolling Stones, Queens of the Stone Age, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, The Clash, Rod Stewart, Elton John, Metallica, The Beatles, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Chuck Berry, The Who, George Harrison, John Lennon, Muddy Waters, Motorhead, The Black Keys, The White Stripes, The Allman Brothers, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, the Ramones, Guns N' Roses, George Clinton, Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Curtis Mayfield, Iggy Pop, Queen, Van Morrison, The Faces, Eagles of Death Metal, Them Crooked Vultures

Books:

Live From New York, anything by The Onion

Considering that I'm new to the city, I plan on spending my weekends discovering fun things to do in the area. Bars, parks, anything interesting.

I'm a nerd. A really, really big nerd. So much in fact that I make my living from it (so I guess it's not really "private").

Also, I'm usually very direct about everything except for one area. If someone messages me and I'm not interested, I'm awful at just coming out and saying it. My standard reaction is to just not respond at all in those situations (I think that's better than stringing someone along just to be nice). I'm not trying to be a dick when I do that, I just know what type of girl I am or am not interested in.

You don't take yourself too seriously.